Here's Mukesh Bansal's reading list after quitting Flipkart

Bansal has been an avid reader since his college days. In fact, the many business biographies that he read as a student kindled in him an interest in entrepreneurship.Masoom Gupte | ET Bureau | May 10, 2016, 13:00 IST

Mukesh BansalWhen Mukesh Bansal quit Flipkart in February, he sent out a goodbye email to all his colleagues at the company. He mentioned in the email that he plans to use his break to catch up on his reading, travel and fitness.

Bansal has been an avid reader since his college days. In fact, the many business biographies that he read as a college student kindled in him an interest in entrepreneurship. In a recent interview to a business magazine, he shared the names of some of these books, "Lee Iacocca, Sam Walton's Made in America and about the late Sony founder, Akio Morita."

Over the years, reading has become Bansal's go-to option for unwinding. He manages to read at least one book a week. He enjoys "reading about history, science, biographies." His favourite books include Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond, A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson and Good to Great by Jim Collins.